Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Three: A Powerful Comeback III (2/2)
“Can you confirm whether your engagement with Nan Chan has been dissolved?”
Yan Jin hadn’t been courteous at all. He’d bluntly said, “Stop spouting rubbish. I’ve never heard of any such engagement with Nan Chan.”
His response had left the reporters silent. They had prepared many follow-up questions, but his response had stopped all of them.
With their finely tuned senses, the reporters had long since guessed that Yan Jin wouldn’t recognize the engagement with Nan Chan. They had already made preparations for Yan Jin announcing that the engagement was canceled. Even in their wildest expectations, none of them could have guessed that Yan Jin would be so shameless. He’d bluntly said that he’d never even heard of such an engagement!
This… this… was too much. Even though the Nan Family’s rush to announce the engagement had been quite underhanded, it was a fact that Yan Jin and Nan Chan had been engaged at some point. To play the victim now was really…
Too shameless.
This wasn’t Yan Jin’s style at all. Where was the grim ice-cold chairman?
For a while, the shocked reporters were silent.
With a lot of effort, one reporter finally followed up, “Do you currently have any romantic feelings for anyone? What is your current relationship with Miss Nan Chan?”
This time, Yan Jin didn’t talk nonsense, and told the truth plainly, “Yes, I do. And Nan Chan is my friend’s cousin.”
Yan Jin’s affirmation to the first question sent the reporters into disarray. None of the reporters listened to his response to the second question. They were already busy preparing what they would write about his first response.
After a lot of extremely similar questions were asked, the corners of Yan Jin’s mouth lightly curled upwards into a smile. It was the first time he’d graced the media so generously with his smile and words.
“We’ve known each other for seven years now. But, it was only until last year that we became officially together. I’m very glad to come across such a person and distinguished designer. We’ll definitely get married. Rather than ‘til death do us part’, our grave will continue to carry all of our love for each other…”
“Question——” A rather pointed question followed. “Why has your lover not stepped forth? Does your partner not wish to publicly join hands with you against whatever may come?”
The next second, the conference room’s back door opened. Aside from the people on stage facing the reporters, no one else noticed.
Those on stage who did see didn’t think much of it. Only Yan Jin was suddenly struck with a deep premonition when he saw the door begin to open.
There wasn’t any reason. He just intuitively knew.
In the face of such a topic that definitely needed to be avoided, he grabbed the microphone and made the following response in a second.
“Look. The love of my life has arrived.”
In the next second, all of the reporters synchronously turned around. The door swung entirely open, and all of Xiao Yu was revealed to everyone.
……
In the end, the press conference became more about Yan Jin coming out of the closet. All of tomorrow’s headlines would probably be about Yan Jin’s “complicated” romance despite that not being the press conference’s original intention.
The press conference was supposed to be for the most official of matters. Yan Jin had become the eighteenth head of the Gabriel family and had inherited all of the family’s assets, property, and personnel.
As for the small issue of accidentally coming out of the closet…
Chairman Yan said that it had just been a coincidence. It definitely hadn’t been planned from the start. He hadn’t specifically invited the reporters who had asked the last question. Neither had he installed GPS on Xiao Yu to time Xiao Yu’s arrival at the eleventh hour.
“Ga, Gabriel?”
After getting into Yan Jin’s car, Xiao Yu was slowly starting to regain his mental faculties. Thus, his first question was about this “Gabriel”.
“Mhmm?” Yan Jin rubbed Xiao Yu’s curls. It pained him to see the curls looking so lifeless, so he gave Xiao Yu a kiss on the top of his head.
“Stop acting dumb. I heard the reporters call you Mr. Gabriel earlier. Hurry up and tell me what that’s all about.”
Xiao Yu swatted away Yan Jin’s troublemaking hands. He wore a fiercely angry expression on his face.
“There’s nothing much. I gathered the necessary requirements to become the heir to a family, so I went overseas to go collect the position…” Yan Jin saw that Xiao Yu’s expression was still very serious, so he hurriedly pointed out some benefits. “Isn’t this great? Now, YL has a patron. We have the resources to upgrade our entire inventory of company tablets if you want.”
Xiao Yu prodded him. “…That’s not the main point. This, this Gabriel. Is it that Gabriel?”
“That’s right. The Gabriel that’s the richest family in the world.”
Xiao Yu’s eyes widened in shock.
Xiao Yu wouldn’t have been so shocked by anything else. However, he had indeed now sunk into a shocked silence.
Gabriel was one of the top ten most mysterious families in the world. It was impossible to estimate their net worth. But, there probably wasn’t anything wrong with Yan Jin claiming that they were number one. Their most common nickname was “the world’s treasury”.
Then, the most important question currently was: why was Yan Jin now this family’s successor?